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by rickdeckard 269 days ago
> Sorting dates: This is why there is an international standard of having YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss in the order we have it.

That would be great, but this ISO is just one of the standards, and there are still regional standards as well.

And that's still ignoring the end-user. In Europe for example, humans might create filenames with date in format dd.mm, e.g. "Report 25.01.xls"

A system attempting to sort this intelligently would likely assume this is a decimal number, as it has zero context for it.

It's just slightly worse than the lack of consistent UTC-usage of systems, with the mixed attempts to correct data to local timezone (or not) depending on application...